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Welcome to Cover Snark, where the people are snarky and the covers quiver in fear. Since I don’t write many snarky book reviews here on A Reader of Fictions, Cover Snark is my outlet. If you click on the title of the book, where possible, I’ve linked to Goodreads. Clicking on the cover itself will show you the cover in a larger size, in most cases. Feel free to love covers I hate and vice versa. Let me know your thoughts in the comments!

Shiny and New:

1. Extraordinary Means – Robyn SchneiderThoughts: Now THAT is a fun tagline. I’m not sure how I feel about the cover as a whole, but the tagline cracks me up. Apparently the actual cover doesn’t have the shooting stars on it, which I think is a shame.

5. Sound (Salvage #2) – Alexandra DuncanThoughts: A POC and a pretty planet. Not bad. Not sure why the tagline is in typewriter font when this is set in space and not really loving the juxtaposition of patterns with the title and background, though.

6. Dreamland – Robert L. AndersonThoughts: That definitely does not look like a dreamland to me at all, but I guess Nightmareland doesn’t roll off the tongue quite the same way.

7. The Shrunken Head (Curiosity House #1) – Lauren Oliver & H.C. ChesterThoughts: Oh middle grade covers, don’t ever change. Except for this tendency to make the series title larger than the book title. That needs to change. People keep referring to this book as Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head, but the book’s title is The Shrunken Head. THIS IS A PET PEEVE, OKAY.

9 responses to “Cover Snark (138): A Pocket Full of Snark”

Midnight Dolls:
Thought about the chain being a snake. Cute, but It didn’t work. But thanks for your feedback. Would love to see some of your cover designs one day. Maybe I’ll hire you to work on one of my titles.

1. Yeah, I just don’t know about this cover. Like, I love all the individual elements, but it doesn’t feel complete somehow. Partly, it looks like it’s set in space or something because of the color of the trees? Coral? Whatever that is.

3. I don’t think I know this song.

13. Yeah, this is one of those times I’m like 75% sure it’s a soccer ball and 25% concerned it’s totally something else that people will laugh at me for getting wrong. Though the title bumps me up to about 95% sure, since I THINK Breakaway might be a sportsball thing. I thought about this a lot.

14. I…. actually find the demented baseball kind of cute.

19. AM I RIGHT OR AM I RIGHT?

20. IT IS SO CUTE.

22. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. She’s being very teasey on twitter so I have HOPES.

23. WOO. This legitimizes my lack of knowledge.

25. AGREED. Like I wish it wasn’t HUN TER, but LOOK AT IT.

27. VERY VERY COOL CHICKGON.

28. This should be way prettier. I don’t think the white background is really helping. I love the elements, but it’s not really coming together. I want that dress badly though. And I would wear it to sit on my couch like a boss.

4. That is so wonderful to see a publisher put out a cover that doesn’t try to hide the MC’s figure.

5. So…is it just me or does it look like that planet is crushing the ice?
14. I’ve never loved a cover more than I do right now.
28. I am going to bet that dress rips right down so that her undies are visible to EVERYONE.Brigid recently posted…Waiting On Wednesday: Anne & Henry by Dawn Ius

42. Now I want a vampire novel where the twist on their mythos is that instead of having no reflection, they have someone else’s reflection in any reflective surfaces. It’ll give that tiny blonde girl in your class away when she’s in the locker room and her reflection is a huge Korean guy.

CB1. Oooooh, I like it.

CB2. Yep, that was definitely the ARC cover. I remember it well because SO PINK.

CB 7. Yeah, that’s just bad cover all around. I’d take a cheesy cover where a mirror separates Darcy and her girlfriend on one side in modern New York City from Lizzie on the other side in small town America or whatever place she travels to in-book that I forgot. Sometimes, people should hire me as a consultant for these kinda of things.

Gosh, soooo many covers! *-*
I can’t even: I want to read the anthology by April Genevieve Tucholke; also I want to start The burning sky!!!Frannie Pan @ In Clouds of Pages recently posted…Love-a-thon Challenge 2015: Book Spine Poetry

1. I like the font and yes, great tag line!
3. How cute.
4. I love it, especially after the story how this cover was made.
6. I do like the city that floats in the sky, while it looks like paint stripes if you look quickly.
7. Middle grade books have the best covers.
8. She certainly did. Stunning.
26. Wow. What happened here.
27. Prettyprettypretty *grabby hands*
28. Mweh, I am disappointed.
29. Awesome.